o i remember letters :p i think the lie of 'classic' (if i can call it that already) social networks is the fact that people simply talk into the void. It's therapeutic on one side because you can clear your head, but on the other hand it's also an illusion where those 2000 'friends' you count on your list arent really there, even if no one reads it gives the impression of being heard and you're right, it's actually anti-social media, also because it's mainstream. Like here on steemit you have communities that are built and growing round a topic where everyone feels strongly about. The tech-heads and the enlightened altruists i hear talking about maybe we can have communities but in fact they're already here. People can slip into a niche, big or small, and surround themselves with like minds. No matter what the fat fish say, there's tons of great content, and almost something for everyone. Their problem seems to be they want to be entertained, i think the attitude is a bit demeaning but ive always been an alleycat and a tunnelrat so i dont really feel the need to swim in shallow waters, i prefer it deeper, and i have opinion, on many things, here among others, but not limited to.
I strongly believe though with the advent of steemit (in its babysteps) opening the door to possibilities that werent there we'll soon see more of this and the classic mastodonts will have to adapt, or become fossil fuel lol. After all , who in his right mind would waste time on a place that tries to use you to sell to you when you can do it in a place you can use to spread yourself , connect with like minds in the borderlesss nation, and get a real bonus on the side ?
I don't think they will need to sue google or facebook in order to achieve their downfall, unless they adapt, and make it attractive. These things take time ofcourse. It's still the "shady" cryptoworld after all, the land of evil hackers, criminals and online druglords, but that's because people are always scared of something new and also ofcourse because the elders and the ancient ones don't like it when something comes along that might actually dent them.

But , despite that, here, there's still tons of people who stick to the "nice post, plz upvote thx" replies, which i understand is slightly annoying if you get a few 100 of those per post but i dont think opression or content dictatorship will fix that. Mute buttons, block buttons and ... i'm kinda hoping they would implement a feature where posts can be 'hidden' by default, so they only show up to the community its aimed at (by primary hashtag, you can get a community by putting the first tag as "wonderlandXX001abvb" for instance and everyone involved just has to look for that and all post with that as primary will be put in the same subfolder while if autohide is set by the author it wont show in the trending new or hot feeds (for instance) and the enlightened content dictators won't be bothered by it)

way better solution than ein vote - ein account - ein content imo lol

right-o ... another epistle ...sorry, i get carried away sometimes